Suame redevelopement, automobile repairs - lightweight (Asian cars)
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2009-05-23
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Suame Magazine is an automobile industrial slum in Kumasi-Ashanti Region, providing a chaotic working environment for about 20,000 artisans, dealing in automobile repairs, spare parts, fabrications of metal works and scraps.
It is an engineering hub in Kumasi which provides automobile services, repairs and trains a substantial number of artisans in the Ashanti Region with others coming from different regions of Ghana.
Over the years, Suame Magazine has become choked, a visual nuisance and an industry centre where environmental protection standard does not exist. This is as a result of an unplanned urban centre, leading to an urban sprawl.
Suame Magazine is therefore a challenge for architects and city planners to redesign the area to comfortably accommodate the existing number of artisans, provide them with a cleaner working environment, equipped them with modern automobile technologies and are mindful of the environmental protection agency standards.
The failure of architects and city planners to intervene now will be a signed death warrant of Suame Magazine in the near future.
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A thesis submitted to the College of Architecture and Building Technology,Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in partial fulfilment of the requirements of Postgraduate Diploma in Architecture.